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Minotaur Books
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0312368968
EAN: 9780312368968
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Mystery
It is the year 1910 and the bloodstained body of an
unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry
Chetwynd’s Shropshire estate. A reluctant heir to the
estate, Sebastian Chetwynd is already battling with
divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own
and his father’s expectation that he follow in his
footsteps, and his duty to marry for money when he is in
love with Louisa, a student doctor and supporter of
women’s rights. Unknown to the Chetwynds, there is Hannah, living in
London, who has lost her memory of everything that
happened in the dozen years previous to a serious
accident. In an attempt to unravel her past, Hannah writes
down the story of her life as far as she can remember it.
As she reaches out to grasp and piece together the
fragments of those missing years, it seems that the
ongoing murder investigation in Shropshire could hold the
key. Switching between troubled South Africa in the last years
of the nineteenth century and the murder in England ten
years later, Marjorie Eccles’s delicate narrative reveals
the lies and deceptions that have lain beneath the veneer
of polite Edwardian society.
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